Triple
T11257235
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hudson v. McMillian |
E266469
|
entity |
| Predicate | respondent |
P2238
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John McMillian
John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
|
E914623
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John McMillian | Statement: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McMillian Context triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
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A.
Alan Pattillo
Alan Pattillo was a British film and television editor and director known for his work on series like "Thunderbirds" and various feature films.
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B.
William Bradford Huie
William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
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C.
Charles Allen
Charles Allen was a prominent 19th-century American politician and jurist from Massachusetts known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership in early anti-slavery political movements.
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D.
C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
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E.
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John McMillian Triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
Generated description
John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McMillian Target entity description: John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
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A.
Alan Pattillo
Alan Pattillo was a British film and television editor and director known for his work on series like "Thunderbirds" and various feature films.
-
B.
William Bradford Huie
William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
-
C.
Charles Allen
Charles Allen was a prominent 19th-century American politician and jurist from Massachusetts known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership in early anti-slavery political movements.
-
D.
C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
-
E.
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e935b85c819085e1abf2dd4099c5 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e4cca0d25c8190bfdbe1f6ee3b04cb |
completed | April 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e4d9ec9964819084bd7118e49c41a2 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e4ddab4ef48190ab7f371da765c6c0 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.